I know that it’s like three media scandals ago but one of the things that really just gets under my skin about the Greenwald/Taibbi BS is that they completely misrepresent actually problematic behavior from editors, which tends to target the young and powerless, not the big names

For example, according to the NYT, editors at the NY Post published an article under a reporter’s byline without her knowledge let alone consent. That article also happened to be a questionable piece of reporting about *checks notes* Hunter Biden’s laptop. That’s blatant abuse.

I’ve actually worked at a publication where the editor and publisher ordered my coworker to write a positive story about an advertiser, another actual abuse. When staff came together to object, we were threatened with our paychecks.

We weren’t unionized but we acted as a union, and managed to pull the publication back from the brink, though at a great cost for some colleagues. They didn’t walk away from $500k salaries to get $300k on Substack. They filed for unemployment and had it challenged by the company

At their worst, editors can take advantage of writers or fail to protect them. Greenwald’s editors were trying to protect him from himself, which is something that actually good editors do for their reporters, and for which actually good reporters should thank their lucky stars.

Anyways solidarity with reporters who don’t make $500k a year and who don’t just negotiate special contracts for themselves but instead throw down for a collective bargaining agreement that protects everyone